https://wikishire.co.uk/w/index.php?title=Ashbury,_Berkshire&feed=atom&action=historyAshbury, Berkshire - Revision history2024-03-28T15:11:16ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.25.5https://wikishire.co.uk/w/index.php?title=Ashbury,_Berkshire&diff=8815&oldid=prevRB at 23:50, 26 May 20122012-05-26T23:50:41Z<p></p>
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|latitude=51.564<br />
|longitude=-1.619<br />
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|population=495<br />
|census year=2001<br />
|LG district=Vale of White Horse<br />
|constituency=Wantage<br />
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'''Ashbury''' is a village in western [[Berkshire]], found some 7 miles east of [[Swindon]] in neighbouring [[Wiltshire]]. The parish includes the hamlets of [[Idstone]] and [[Kingstone Winslow]].<br />
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The neolithic burial site of [[Wayland's Smithy]] is in the parish a mile east of the village.<br />
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Ashbury has but one public house, the Rose and Crown Hotel and a Post Office.<br />
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The Church of England primary school in Ashbury serves both Ashbury and [[Compton Beauchamp]].<ref>[http://www.ashburyprimary.ik.org/ Ashbury with Compton Beauchamp CE(A) Primary School] website</ref> The present school was built in the latter part of the 20th century. The previous school building is now the village hall.<br />
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==History==<br />
[[File:Ashbury Manor.JPG|thumb|left|200px|15th century manor house]]<br />
The earliest known record of Ashbury is from the year 840, when King Æthelwulf of Wessex granted land at ''Aisshedoune'' to his minister Duda.<ref name=Page>Page & Ditchfield, 1924, pages 503-512</ref> In subsequent charters the name evolved as ''Æcesbyrig'' in AD 856, ''Aysshedoune'' in AD 947, ''Æcesburuh'' in AD 953 and 960 and ''Eissesberie'' in the 11th century.<ref name=Page/><br />
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After 953, the manor of Ashbury was granted to Glastonbury Abbey, which then held it until the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1539.<ref name=Page/> A Mediæval deer park|deer park was established for the Abbey in the south of the parish.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.berkshirehistory.com/villages/ashbury.html |title=Ashbury |last=Ford |first=David Nash |date=2004 |work=Royal Berkshire History |publisher=David Nash Ford |accessdate=24 January 2011}}</ref> It is bounded by an ancient embankment enclosing a rounded area characteristic of Mediæval parks.<ref name=Rackham>Rackham, 1976, page 144</ref> It may equate to the ''Aysshen Wood'' recorded in a terrier of the parish in 1519 as covering 415 acres.<ref name=Page/> The former deer park is now the Upper Wood of Ashdown Park.<br />
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Ashbury Manor House was built in the 15th century.<ref name=Page/><ref name=Pevsner71>Pevsner, 1966, page 71</ref> The brick upper storey of its porch was added in 1697, which is also the likely date that the chimneys were added.<ref name=Page/><ref name=Pevsner71/><br />
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Ashdown House, built in about 1660, is within the parish about 2 miles south of the village itself.<br />
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==Churches==<br />
[[File:Ashbury StMaryTheVirgin south.JPG|thumb|right|200px|St Mary the Virgin]]<br />
*[[Church of England]]: St Mary<br />
*Independent: Ashbury Evangelical Free Church<br />
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The parish church of St Mary was originally Norman but was rebuilt in the 13th century.<ref>Pevsner, 1966, pages 70-71</ref> In the 20th century the artist Martin Travers converted the north transept into a chapel of Saint Hubert in memory of Evelyn, Countess Craven who had lived at Ashdown House in the parish.<br />
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Ashbury Mission Hall was a "tin tabernacle" building of corrugated iron opened in 1908.<ref name=Bunce/> The building was replaced in 1972-73 with the present Ashbury Evangelical Free Church.<ref name=Bunce/><br />
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A Methodist chapel once stood in Chapel Lane.<ref name=Bunce>{{cite web |url=http://www.ashbury.org.uk/evangbook.php |title=Ashbury Evangelical Free Church |last=Bunce |first=Suzanne |date=2009 |work=Ashbury |publisher=Ashbury Parish Council |accessdate=17 January 2011}}</ref> It is now a private home.<br />
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==Big Society==<br />
[[File:Ashbury VillageHall.JPG|right|thumb|200px|Former parish school, now the Village Hall]]<br />
Ashbury has a Village Hall and a cricket club: Ashbury Cricket Club.<ref>[http://www.ashburycc.co.uk Ashbury Cricket Club]</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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==Sources==<br />
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*{{cite book |editor1-last=Page |editor1-first=W.H. |editor1-link=William Henry Page |editor2-last=Ditchfield |editor2-first=P.H. |editor2-link=Peter Ditchfield |series=[[Victoria County History]] |title=A History of the County of Berkshire, Volume 4 |year=1924 |publisher=|location=|pages=503–512}}<br />
*{{cite book |last=Pevsner |first=Nikolaus |authorlink=Nikolaus Pevsner |series=The Buildings of England |title=Berkshire |date=1966 |publisher=Penguin Books |location=Harmondsworth |isbn=|pages=70–72}}<br />
*{{cite book |last=Rackham |first=Oliver |authorlink=Oliver Rackham |title=Trees and Woodland in the British Landscape |series=Archaeology in the Field Series |year=1976 |publisher=J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd |location=London |isbn=0 460 04183 5 |page=144}}</div>RB